Washingtonian Stance Pledge for Temperance Society
We pledge as gentlemen to abstain from spirituous or malt liquors wine and cider to guard our health standing and families and form a mutual benefit temperance society with names attached.
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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1844
Page
3
We pledge as gentlemen to abstain from spirituous or malt liquors wine and cider to guard our health standing and families and form a mutual benefit temperance society with names attached.
Listing of the Augusta W T A Society officers and managers including Dr J A Eve president Dr Daniel Hook Rev WM J Hard vice presidents Hawkins Huff Esq WM Haines Jr secretary L D Sallerstedt treasurer and managers Rev C S Dod E E Scofield James Godby James Harper John G Dunlap John Milledge
A report from Mark Cooper at Enterprise in Lancaster County Pennsylvania details long crop rotations with rye in twenty seven years without manure and notes the potential to continue this practice with proper soil. The piece also extols ornamenting grounds with fruit trees and cites a West Cambridge farmer who reaped five barrels of apples from a Baldwin in eleven years, illustrating practical orchard benefits.
John Milholland and Benjamin Crane of Chandlersville Ohio announce a new improvement in bee-hive construction. They secured U S patent dated April 20 1842 for a horizontal box design without tops or pins, standing on a four leg base with a double inclined bottom.
A Maine Farmer describes stacking sections upon a base and each other to raise a house to a sufficient height with a final horizontal top. The method emphasizes orderly construction and enduring structure.
A military officer Redmond conflicts with author Blake over Mary Clinton. The feud escalates from insults to a mocked duel using pens as weapons, arranged in the Gazette as ground for a test of gentlemanly conduct. The plot ends with Redmond offering an uneasy apology and Blake winning Mary’s hand.
Rhubarb burnt in an iron pot is proposed as an unwiring remedy for diarrhoea. A dose of 5,910 grains in milk is stated as proper quantity. The drug loses two thirds of its weight when sufficiently burnt and becomes entirely tasteless.
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